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• Saturday, April 12, 2008 - American Women 2
In an earlier post I mentioned American women being overwhelmed. I got some interesting feedback. I wanted to explain a few things though ... I should have been more specific with my thoughts.
I know one mom who stays at home with her 3 children, gets up early enough to cook and clean before her children rise. She also works from home to help make ends meet, home schools and does what ever she can to fill the Biblical role of wife & mother. She does not get involved with every ministry under the sun because her family is her ministry right now. She does go to one sporting even during the week. Why is it that she is over whelmed? Is it because she's bought in to the lies? I don't think so. I truly believe it's because she has no help. There is no tribe to take on some of her responsibility. The servants back in the Bible days were there for a reason .... what was it? The tribes were family, yes ...... but they each served in a role that would benefit the rest of the tribe.
It's not always possible to have your *tribe* living with or even near you. In those circumstances, what's that overwhelmed mother to do? Hopefully she'll have a neighbor that will reach out to her .... some one that can be a stand-in tribe member .... some one that will lift her up, encourage her and grab a dust cloth as she starts her cleaning dance.
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• Sunday, April 13, 2008 - Stressed and Discontented?
You pick out one with ten children, one with the best homeschool, one with the most productive little farm, one who sews her entire family's clothing needs, one who grows all her family's food and only feeds them nutritious, organic, fermented ... you get the picture ... and then you settle down to feel aggrieved you can't do it all. And you wish you had a tribe and a few servants (I agree with Sister Lori, the servant women didn't have it so good.)
You know what? God did not call us all to do it all. One must listen for His voice in all of this, and He will lead the way. What is important that each of us achieve, is individual. I have had to learn this the hard way.
We should support, but not exhort one another in these things. My obedience in growing and canning a large garden, might be someone else's disobedience, whom He has given work elsewhere.
We need to bloom where we are planted. Trust and Obey!
I love HSB, and many of my fellow bloggers, but we must guard against this whole business becoming a hotbed of discontent, envy and competitiveness. However the women of the Bible got along, I'm guessing they just got on with it. They didn't give a daily broadcast suggesting everyone else did it the same way LOL.
It's my Post Resurrection Resolution (we do them after Easter, not at New Year!) to extend a special welcome to the godly mothers who work outside the home, who send their children to school, and/or who buy their clothes in Walmart - if that's where God is leading them! We can't and shouldn't all do it all. (UNLESS that's what He's told us to do!)
I hope this doesn't sound contentious, it's just my point of view, obviously.
Jackie